Jaya Prada

With the BJP cadre around with me, things have become much easier.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life. Think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other thought. This is the way to success.

Happiness is a feeling of your own achievement, and it signifies goals.

I think politics and films are a great combination. Still, I have the urge in me to do really good roles. But I feel isolated at times when politicians treat me like a film star and the industry treats me like a politician.

Politics and acting are two parallel paths of my life.

You have to make efforts to overcome the hurdles in love.

I think the world is surrounded by love.

Whatever they are showing in the film 'Manikarnika,' I feel I was like that.

Even as a sitting MP from a party, I wasn't spared. Azam Khan harassed me. He attempted an acid attack on me.

Because the state I was in, contesting elections with Azam Khan, as a woman, with acid attack threats, threat to my life... I couldn't even tell my mother if I would come back alive whenever I left from home.

So many people have helped me in my life, and Amar Singh ji is my godfather.

I am sure the people of Rampur will once again give me a chance to represent them.

Those who call Bharat Mata as 'dayan,' who does not acknowledge Kashmir as part of India and use foul language against our PM Modi and CM Yogi Adityanath, stands exposed before people. Their anger is visible when I meet them and they share their views.

I feel happy whenever people compliment me.

I have an emotional attachment with the people of Rampur.

The national party's well-disciplined cadre and election machinery is working round the clock for me.

During earlier occasions, I was fighting big parties - the BJP, Congress and BSP - and had also to face factional fight within the SP. I had to take on Sonia Gandhi, Mayawati and Azam Khan. I did have the support of Mulayam Singh Yadav though.

I set up a centre for zari-zardozi artists near Paharganj.

Azam Khan has made me the focus of his campaign. I have for long been suffering his tongue-lash. It only reflects his state of mind. He does a lot of drama.

The UPA government talks more and works less. Most of its schemes look impressive on paper while they are not implemented properly at the grassroots level even in Congress-ruled states.

Srideviji was a great human being, a fabulous dancer, a tremendous actress and above all, a wonderful mother.

I moved to the SP. I worked for them for 10 years. But they don't have any ideology. They work only for Muslim votes because that's how they feel they will win.

Azam Khan has killed industry in Rampur and I want to turn the clock around.

My passion is dancing and music.

The BJP works for the people. For development, for women, for the poorest of the poor. That is the ideology. I identify with it.

I've never gone by what others think.

I can't be stopped from offering my respect to places of worship.

I completely support Ravi Kishan ji's remarks about saving youth from the problem of drug trafficking/addiction.

We need to raise our voice against the use of drugs and we need to save our youth.

It is only because of the love of masses that I am campaigning for the SP.

SP is the only party which can put in efforts for the development of the State. Therefore, I request Kanpurites to vote for the SP candidate and ensure progress of the city.

I have had a comfortable and successful working relationship with Bokadia. We have done successful films together.

Azam Khan brought me to Rampur, but it was Amar Singh who brought me to SP.

While growing up, girls are being conditioned to feel that they have to accept their husbands any way.

It is imperative that mothers understand their child's behavior and not blindly support the wrongdoings or faults in their sons.

I am glad that I made my television debut with 'Perfect Pati,' a show that portrays a mother and her role as a mother-in-law in such a strong positive light.

I feel pity for Mayawati that joined hands even with rival Akhilesh Yadav only in an attempt to stop Narendra Modi.

I've been dancing since I was five or six.

Simplicity and honesty make a person most graceful, but in today's world, they are overrated.

I hated being compared to others.

I want to play roles of substance, where I have something to contribute, where I can help push forward a thought.

The Samakhya Andhra wants Hyderabad and so does Telengana. The only solution I see is for Hyderabad to be declared a Union Territory like Delhi, so that it can be with both of them.

People have been saying that Amar Singh is more of an intellectual than a grassroot politician but we will prove them wrong. We will pick up problems, explore them in a realistic way and present them in parliament.

Unlike most politicians who speak only from their mind, Amar Singhji thinks and speaks both from his mind and heart.

Bollywood looks only at the box office numbers. If the film earns money, it is usually because of the hero and the director. It is about Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan.

The moment I said I am open to doing films, I started getting a lot of offers.

The main advantage Sridevi and I had was that we acted in films which were South remakes. What we had done in the South, we did the same in Hindi.

I don't differentiate between films and TV, particularly Hindi serials.

Every girl has a dream - she wants a perfect husband. But that is not possible. There will be ego clashes and one has to compromise.

Jayasudha and I have acted in several films and it is my duty to campaign for her.